I've read the "mutation" thing. To me I look at it more like separate races than mutations... Like black/white/Asian/Latino on Earth, it's just physical differences of the same species and more widespread than mutations.

That's just been my take anyway... I still could easily see Lucas add eyes to Ponda in a future edition of the movies, haha.

The Duros/Neimoidian thing I just never even acknowledged. I just figured they're two different species all together from different planets and Lucas can eat it on that one too.

To me those two don't even look close to one another.

Has there ever been a technical reason given as to why the prequal aliens were so different? Was it because he really just felt that the PT mask looked better than its OT origin? I can't think of too many aliens that weren't changed between the two trilogies.

I think the saddest part of this is that none of the repacks in this wave were ever very prevalent around here in Denver. Sure Wedge, the Gammorean, would definitely have been better choices for the wave, but really I haven't seen most of those figure more than once or twice, if at all. I have yet to see Wave 7, I saw maybe one or two stores that had Wave 4, and the Jango figures seemed to go quick so I only ever saw a few. I never saw Wicket, Ackbar hung around the most but he wasn't that easy to find, but it's not like there is demand for more of him so soon. Vader was the worst pegwarmer out of the lot but he has cleared out around here. The Luke figures I've seen occasionally but really not that often.

I think it really just goes to show what a ****** state brick and mortar retail is in these days. Almost anything that isn't Dengar, 4-LOM, a Cloud Car Pilot, Obi-Wan or Anakin is appealing... If only because the complete lack of any new product for the last eight months to a year. And yet if this case ships in large numbers at all (which given the state of things I do kind of doubt) I'd be willing to bet that in another eight months to a year I'll be excited to see anything other than Keyan Farlander, Ackbar. Both of who I could foresee joining 4-LOM and Dengar at Targets everywhere for months and months to come.

There has to be something going on with the line, in terms of figures getting moved around and this massive and to be honest a little nonsensical Revenge promotion. Either Hasbro is backloading everything to the TPM 3D release, or this way lies doom.

Well, the case ratio sucks but honestly the only stinker is Vader... like Ryan said, none of those figures were really easy to find in the first place. I've only seen Waves 3, 5 and 6 twice each, and I still have yet to see Wave 4.

But yeah, something smells fishy here, and I doubt we're going to get any answers at SDCC.